Bug 1496653 (CVE-2017-7818) - CVE-2017-7818 Mozilla: Use-after-free during ARIA array manipulation (MFSA 2017-22)
Summary: CVE-2017-7818 Mozilla: Use-after-free during ARIA array manipulation (MFSA 20...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7818
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1494903
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-28 04:27 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 01:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-10-11 23:51:59 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2831 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-09-29 03:47:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2885 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-10-12 03:40:10 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 04:27:25 UTC 
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating arrays of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) elements within containers through the DOM. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/#CVE-2017-7818
Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 05:04:11 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2017-09-28 18:46:13 UTC 
Public now via upstream advisories:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-28 23:48:31 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2831 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2831
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2017-10-11 23:40:58 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2885 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2885
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